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  1. Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence

    Agora

    Greece is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its war of independence, which began in 1821 and allowed Greeks to free themselves of Ottoman rule and oppression, and form their own nation-state. To mark this occasion, we spoke to Sakis Gekas, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern

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  2. Helped by trading gains, Eurobank posts 305 mln in Q1 profits
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    EconomyBanking

    Eurobank posted an adjusted net income of 305 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1), compared to a profit of 72 million euros last year. Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 to 240.4 million euros, with 62.1 million euros of loan loss provisions

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  3. Material deprivation rises, while poverty risk drops slightly
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    Society

    Severe material deprivation continues to rise in Greece across populations classified as poor... lack of at least four out of nine material deprivation items. The corresponding percentage for 2015 was 22.2 percent and 21.5 percent in 2014. The figure stood at 11.0 percent in 2009. Material

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  4. Study casts light on unusual export profile, identifies areas for improvement
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    EconomyFeatures

    exports. The report noted that Greece’s export profile was unusual in that exports represented a small

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  5. One in four Greeks in severe material deprivation; a eurozone outlier
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    Society

    Greece has the sixth highest rate of severe material deprivation among 30 European countries... in 2012” report shows that material deprivation, which is measured in nine categories (e.g. inability... Greece. ELSTAT’s figures show that material deprivation increased in all age groups, with only

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  6. ELSTAT shows decrease in material deprivation, poverty risk, while education mobility remains static
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    Society

    . The material deprivation and living conditions data showed that severe material deprivation.... Children aged 0-17 years continue to be the worst-affected by material deprivation, although

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  7. Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
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    Agora

    , the effort to set up this unusual vote has been dogged by problems. The traditional bastion... Tomasi di Lampedusa described the decline of the Sicilian aristocratic family, the house of Salina

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  8. New waste strategy dials down recycling targets, promises to address landfill problems
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and prompting complaints from visitors and tour operators, while it is not unusual for local... of Leonardo Di Caprio, who highlighted the underwater pollution caused by a collapsed illegal

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  9. One in two Greeks thinks life was better 50 years ago, poll suggests
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    Society

    as lower life expectancies and lower material wealth. Despite this, respondents in several countries believed that life today was worse than it was 50 years ago. Greeks sat in the bottom 10 countries where

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  10. BoG reveals figures for repatriation and banknotes returning to banking system
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    EconomyBanking

    period from the third quarter (Q3) of 2012 until Q3 2014 when there was not any material... of 305 million was almost double that of corporates, while in the July 2015 – December 2016 period

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